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Big Think · Sep 10, 2021

TikTok tics: when Tourette's syndrome went viral

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Mass psychogenic illness, also known as mass hysteria, is when a group of people manifest physical symptoms from imagined threats. History is littered with outbreaks of mass hysteria. Recently, alleged cases of Tourette's syndrome appeared all over the world. Was it real or mass psychogenic illness? While the term is often avoided for fear of ridiculing something more serious, mass psychogenic…

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